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The Lorax

April 17, 2018

By Anonymous

I am the Lorax who spoke for the trees For the trees had no tongues I begged and pleaded you to stop And I screamed at the top of my lungs

Know that life flourishes throughout this land And on this Earth where you stand Lives the sea minks with fur smooth like milk Lives the mohos with songs soft like silk Lives the west african black rhinos, one of the last of their ilk

So I beg of you please, Don’t cut down the trees Or pollute the seas Don’t kill the sea minks or the mohos Or the west african rhinos

I stood on this stump and yelled, Go spread the word Tell your friends and family Oh let it be heard

But you cut down trees And polluted the seas You killed the sea minks, the mohos The west african black rhinos

You kept burning coal Turning nature black like our souls Destroying forests from east to west Until there is nothing left

And when the time has come May you all remember me When I die and rot inside A coffin made of the last tree

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